Weekly API.Report For April 6th, 2015

My Weekly API.Report represents the best of what I've read throughout the week, and is only what I personally felt should be showcased. Each news item comes with a link, and some thoughts I had after curating the piece of API related news. I'm trying to break down stories into as coherent buckets as I can, but it remains something that is ever changing for me, but ultimately I will settle on a clear definition for each of the research areas.

Always a good report, when I start with 101:

• What Is an API, and Why Does It Matter? - I love coming across other introductory to API material. The space if getting so wide, that there are many good opinions emerging.

More on the legal side of 3D Printing, than API:

• Protecting IP from 3D Printing: What Companies Need to Know - An interesting thought on IP from 3D printing world. Something that will keep heating up in coming years.

An interesting Account Management feature:

• Feature 81: Changing user’s password via API (if user can login) - I am doing a lot of tracking on how APIs are being used to help manage user and developer accounts.

A handful of interesting Acquisitions to note:

• Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher - Buying up the bits and pieces you need for your mobile strategy.
• Twitter acquires and shutters developer-tracking service tenXer - I can't really tell the motivations behind the acquisition, but worthy of tracking on. 
• Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher - Buying up the bits and pieces you need for your mobile strategy.

I'm see more Analytics related items like this focused on gaming lately:

• Google Player Analytics Provides Android Developers Gaming Insight 

I'm calling these API Aggregation, but they are kind of a new take on the topic:

• AlchemyAPI Web Combined Call - I thought this was an interesting approach to monetizing APIs, by saving developers time. In a world where you have a bunch of microservices that do one thing, and do it well, I think aggregate or combined API calls ike this as premium service will be more common. 
• AlchemyAPI Text Combined Call - Seems to be something they are doing across the board. Will keep an eye out for others doing this too.

This reflects some of the API Broker style broker I"d like to see more of:

• How to Create a Mobile Blogging App with DreamFactory, WordPress, and Mailgun - I like the idea of these types of walkthroughs that help people do interesting things with APIs, but not so sure about the need to make it so many pages. ;-(

More movement on API Definitions, and not just Swagger, some pretty nice moves from API Blueprint last week:

• Swagger Founder Makes Commitment to Keep Project Open - A great follow-up interview with Tony this week, after the shift of Swagger to SmartBear. 
• Quantifying The Community Around The Swagger API Specification - A current snapshot of my research into the Swagger community. 
• New API Blueprint Tutorial - Good tutorial out of API Blueprint. 

Handful of API Deployment resouces this last week:

• Appcelerator Adds MBaaS Platform to Portfolio - The mobile context has always been part of appcelerator, but the API deployment infrastructure is interesting enough to take a closer look at.
• A curated list of awesome Flask resources and plugins - A very comprehensive list of Flask related API tooling. I'd love to have the time to do this for top API frameworks, but I have so much catchup to do just on the frameworks themselves. 
• Band Aids Don’t Solve REST API Complexity (Part 2 of 4) - An interesting series I'm following over at DreamFactory. Curious to see where it goes, and what the solutions are they recommend.

API Deprecation rumors and misconceptions out of Fecebook:

• Despite Reports, Facebook Says Hashtag API Still Active - A take on the recent conversation around the Facebook Hashtag API. 
• Facebook may be shutting down access to hashtags in its API - The conversation on the Facebook Hashtag API from another angle.

The API Design advice for the week:

• How to Decide How Many HTTP Status Codes Your API Needs - Always interesting to read advice like this. 
• InfoQ eMag: Web APIs: From Start to Finish - A great guide that I missed in January. Definitely something you should read!! 
• Bizcoder - API Design Notes: Smart Paging - Daryll is really pumping out consistently rich API design wisdom lately. 
• eCommerce API Design – The Good, The Bad and The Etsy API - An API design critique of the Etsy API.

The always evergreen topic of the API Economy:

• How does Amazon Dash prove the API economy? - Some thoughts on the new Amazon Dash, and world of IoT over at SmartBear.

A single, slick approach to API Evangelism:

• Troy Hunt: Deconstruct websites, get hired: hiding recruitment messages in source code - This tactic is always interesting to see. I think it can be useful when done right.

Couple of API Event related items this week:

• Guest Speaker Kin Lane: Quantifying the Swagger Community - An API gathering I will be doing at Gluecon. 
• Twitter developer events: April 2015 - What can find going on around the Twitter API ecosystem. 
• Customize your Cocktail at APIDays/APIStrat powered by Foodpairing - You will have to come to Berlin to see this in action. 
• DPLAfest 2015: Come hack with us! - Please go support DPLA if you can and build cool stuff!

Some API Integration insight from SalesForce:

• Using Paw To Work With Salesforce REST APIs for Mobile Backends - Tracking on the prefered API integration tooling of API providers.

The growing area of API Lifecycle discussion:

• API Lifecycle Analysis Stage: Preparing Your API Strategy Pre-Launch - More great API lifecycle content out of Nordic APIs.

Lots API Management moves to evaluate from the last week:

• Band Aids Don’t Solve REST API Complexity (Part 2 of 4) - An interesting series I'm following over at DreamFactory. Curious to see where it goes, and what the solutions are they recommend. 
• How to Write “Good” API Documentation - Some good advice from over at Cloud Elements. 
• Temp API Keys: Leave Them Laying Around The Web Where Devs Will Find Them · - I was playing around with some alternative API management approaches to publish API keys this week. 
• API management comes of age - Some more mainstream press on the latest evolutions in the world of API management. 
• The Tooling Landscape for Developer Programs - A good piece on some of the common building blocks of API management. 
• Watson Developer Cloud: What’s up, docs? - A peak at API management approaches over at IBM Watson. 
• DataSift Developer Community Site Launched - Taking a look at the new API developer community over at DataSift. 
• Reactions to Using The Twilio API - A review of putting the Twilio API to work over at Nordic APIs.

Some very different looks at API Monetization:

• Sensr.net Revenue Experiment - The sensr.net folks thinking out of the box when it comes to selling their devices and services. 
• Pollen lets game developers access their cash from app store sales - Something I didn't think of as a service, in the app economy layer. 
• AlchemyAPI Web Combined Call - I thought this was an interesting approach to monetizing APIs, by saving developers time. In a world where you have a bunch of microservices that do one thing, and do it well, I think aggregate or combined API calls ike this as premium service will be more common. 
• Privacy Is Becoming a Premium Service - A scary look at potential monetization opportunities in the future. 
• AlchemyAPI Text Combined Call - Seems to be something they are doing across the board. Will keep an eye out for others doing this too.
• How Auntie is opening its vaults for the download generation - A good story for the archives. Would like to flush it out as a case study add to the archives. 
• Premium Tier for Azure App Service - A look at the pricing strategy over at Azure App Service.

An API Monitoring discussion:

• Tech Talks – When APIs Need to Meet SLAs - APImetrics CEO David O’Neill sits down with Tech Talks Central at MWC and discusses APIs, Monitoring, and SLAs. 

The other API News from the space:

• This week in API Land, Easter edition - The weekly news from over at Restlet.

A single API On-Boarding story, to showcase how NOT to on-board:

• Charter Communications : Spectrum Business Adds Fiber Optic Maps and Data... - A fiber optic API I stumbled across. Mostly keeping because I'm doing a story on the onboarding process.

Some API Performance thoughts from Restlet:

• Improving API performance with APISpark server-side cache - The approach to API performance at Restlet. 

Some API Reciprocity stories from the private and public sector:

• Harvest for IFTTT: New Integration! - API reciprocity is important for any API platform. 
• On the Spot: Must-Have IFTTT Recipes for Government - More talk of API reciprocity in government.

The growing area of API Testing:

• Dredd: Do Your HTTP API Justice - API testing from the Apiary ecosystem 
• SmartBear Partners with Gallop Solutions - Partnerships and consolidation of services in the API testing world. 
• WebRTC and Its Impact on Testing - A little adjacent to APis, but WebRTC is definitely something I keep track of when it comes to the world of messaging. 
• Why Automated API Testing is Necessary - More thoughts on API testing over at API Metrics.

The only lightly touched on area of API Virtualization:

• Patterns of API Virtualization - I think API virtualization is interesting, but it is hard to help people understand the potential. I'm thinking there needs to be a lot more examples, and storytelling before they become common practice.

An interesting API blip in the world of Architecture:

• 5 Reasons Architects Should Learn to Code - I dig these glimpses of APIs in industries that they are not regularly discussed. You don't see much architectural API discussions.

The PopUp Archive team rock'n the Audio discussion in my roundup:

• Interactive, shareable audio transcripts - Embeddable, audio goodness from the Popup Archive team!! 
• How people listen to, save, and discover new podcasts - I need to get my podcast world together.

Pulling out just the area acuqisitions area, and look at in terms of Authentication:

• Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher - Buying up the bits and pieces you need for your mobile strategy.

 I just couldn't resist putting this one in the Automobile area:

• Engineers Unveil New Driverless Car Capable Of Committing Hit-And-Run - I smell opportunity here! ;-) Also love that Onion stories can make my roundup.

The Banking conversation keeps on heating up:

• Mobile Banking and Payments are on the Up and Up - Things are heating up each month in this space. Lots of changes ahead. 
• The Most Impactful API in The World Ever; Banks & MNOs – It’s Your Turn - More talking on importance of APIs in banking. 
• Bank of Montreal - I like how the core of this banking product is based upon the data they get from financial market APis. API driven economy anyone? 

The ever enjoyable general bucket of the Business of APIs:

• Open APIs: An indispensable link to customers - A good sell for APIs. Like it.

Two things to look at on the Internet connected Cameras front:

• On The API for Harvesting Global Camera Networks - What an amazingly beautiful world we are creating for ourselves. 
• Evercam Public Cameras – A Redesign - And on the more positive and interesting side of Internet enabled cameras.

Where I place Career related items:

• Software Development Engineer | AWS Games at Amazon | C++ - Only one job worthy of showcasing this last week.

I'm putting this under Censorship, even though it might also be legitimate use cases:

• Detect Nudity API Automates Image Censorship - One of those APIs that I can see being used in some good ways, and some not so good ways.

An interesting API related Certification item:

• An Open Can of Tin Badges - Tin Can API - Not quite certification for APIs, but an experience API driven badging and certification. So you could craft specific API experiences, using the Tin Can API, and have the result be a badge delivery. 

A Chat story out of the business social network world:

• Caliber Launches Linkedin Chat App - An app showcase from the LinkedIn ecosystem.

Just a single City Government story this weeK:

• Innovation Saves Chattanooga - Yah Chattanooga. Should be default for every city!

Some expansion, and contraction from the world of Cloud Computing:

• Amazon cloud adds on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery tool - The amazon tentacles reaching on-premise some more. 
• OpenStack hardware startup Nebula shuts down - Keeping track of some of the losers in the cloud computing game. 
• Google Cloud Platform launches mobile console for Android - Gotta have a mobile console for your cloud environment.

Two Cloud Storage stores that barely caught my attention:

• BitYota Seeks Out Gov API Opportunities for its Data Warehouse as a Service - Hmmm. data as a warehouse service? 
• Crossroads Claims Cloud Tape First with StrongBox 3.0 - Not sure what benefits this has over other solutions, but I'm learning along the way.

A single, important Commerce story:

• Version 2 of ITA’s Data Services Platform Released - Yes. I love seeing movement on APIs that I've showcased, especially those in the federal government.

The Containers bucket is pretty small this week:

• Announcing Webhook Respository Subscriptions - Keep in tune with your favorite repos! 
• The Realities of Docker in Production - Some interesting points on realities of docker!

Diverse number of Content related items this last week:

• Open ends? - Some important discussion about open content perceptions in education. 
• Webhose.io API Now Features Named Entity Extraction Capabilities - Useful API resources to keep track of. 
• Diffbot's Discussions API Provides Comment Section Searchability - Some tools for staying in tune with content around the web. 
• Diffbot’s new API allows companies to monitor forum and site comments around the Web - Another view of what is coming out of Diffbot's tools.

A single County Government too:

• Register for Alameda County’s Apps Challenge - Open data at the county level.

A number of Data nuggets this last week:

• SEARCH Purifying the Sea of PDF Data, Automatically - Educating people about the damage caused by open data being locked up in PDFs is important. Especially at the NYT level! 
• Learning to Manage the Data from Wearables and Internet of Things Devices - Lots of talk about the data exhaust around IoT. 
• United Nations Keeps its Finger on the Global Pulse with DataSift - A pretty big use case study from DataSift. 
• Cloud Pioneer Liaison Technologies Launches Industry's First dPaaS - A data platform I'm checking out. 
• Data Mining The City - An interesting data resource, along with slick visualizations. 
• Growth of urban Wal-Mart - This was an interesting story series out of NPR this last week, that had some interesting data and visualization as well. 
• Women and Children First: A Data-Story on Survival Rates among the 2,207 Titanic Passengers and Crew Members - I like stories like this. 
• Consume oData services using Breeze js - An oData approach to archive. 
• Gather Your Agency’s Public Data with Let Me Get That Data for You - Good to see some wider indexing of the valuable open data coming out of the federal government. 
• The 2015 Season Preview in Data Visualization - Another one for the visualization design book.

And directly Database related:

• A Middleware Design for Multiple Embedded - I'm interested in learning about the many views of embedded databases, basically where can you stick a data store. 
• Amazon RDS Update – Oracle Database 12c Now Available - Just tracking on what is availability of common platforms on AWS. 
• Announcing the availability of the latest version of Splunk DB Connect! - Lots of database API connectivity options emerging out there. 
• Search Time Series Data for Advanced Connected Device Applications - More important discussion around the iOT data exhaust, and approaches to making sense of it all. 
• Azure Data Factory Update – New Data Stores - The data store approach over at Azure, with their data factory.

I am seeing a consistent uptick in number of Device related API approaches lately:

• Why Mediatek Pushes Cross-device Sharing Scheme - An approach to device management and multi-device user experience (UX).

DNS is so important to all of this working:

• How DNS evolved into a necessity for our society - A little DNS history for you.

Two takes on the Documents when it comes to Dropbox:

• Document previews on the web are now better than ever - Not directly API related, but some insight that could be applied to world of embeddable document tools. 
• Dropbox revamps its Web preview mode for docs, spreadsheets and PDFs - Another take at the document support at Dropbox, but from NextWeb.

Only a handful of Drone related stories I felt were worthy enough to discuss:

• 3DR Releases DroneKit SDK and API for Building Drone Apps - Another look at the recent 3DR DroneKit release. 
• Hangwind: how drone photography brings us new perspectives on the world - Another area of value that drones are bringing to the table.
• How drones are being used to make the world a better place - I believe. I believe. Keep telling these stories and so will everyone else. 
• Crime-fighting surveillance planes provoke privacy controversy - And the more darker side of reality bubbling up. 
• Canada Proves Fertile Ground For Amazon Drone Delivery Tests - Yeah, so they can get really good at them, and attack us!! :-) kidding. 

Kind of sort of some Education stuff:

• Open ends? - Some important discussion about open content perceptions in education. 
• The War on Boring — Box Education's New Class - And Box taking a stab at education.

A single Email item:

• ToutApp Offers An Email Control API - Just categorizing as par tof my email API research.

Some Embeddable thoughts:

• Interactive, shareable audio transcripts - Embeddable, audio goodness from the Popup Archive team!! 
• Curator, Twitter’s answer to Storify, is now publicly open to media organizations - Storify makes me sad, and not sure I'll get to ever play with Curator. We need an open source, curation tool dedicated to Twitter.

An Encryption talk in the messaging world:

• BitTorrent’s encrypted chat app Bleep gets photos - Encrypted messaging is definitely going to be an ongoing discussion.

APIs in the Federal Government:

• Version 2 of ITA’s Data Services Platform Released - Yes. I love seeing movement on APIs that I've showcased, especially those in the federal government. 
• How to Not be the Next USAspending.gov - Good advice for any government agency. 
• Redesign is awful, but USASpending still proves power of the public - Another look at USASpending.gov from the Sunlight Foundation. 
• USASpending.gov updated, functionality drastically diminished say businesses - Not good. Not good. 
• Gather Your Agency’s Public Data with Let Me Get That Data for You - Good to see some wider indexing of the valuable open data coming out of the federal government. 
• API Standards – How should we build government APIs? - New Zealand government discussion around APIs. 
• EIA Discusses Managing Open Innovation
• On the Spot: Must-Have IFTTT Recipes for Government - More talk of API reciprocity in government.

Couple of Hackathons to showcase:

• How To Welcome New Coders To A Civic Hackathon - Some hackathon wisdom from 18F. 
• GovTechHack: Hacking for Civic Improvement - Some details from recent civic hacking from 18F events. 
• Health 2.0 Boston Codeathon Recap - I'm thinking that hackathons are just going to grow in number, across all business sectors, but it is good to see so many healthcare ones. 
• Living Data Hackathon - I dig seeing these grow in number - This hackathon is based on the notion that Open Data technology can help find new solutions for problems and opportunities in cities. 
• Ford STEAM Lab Challenges Students, Rewards High-Tech Thinking and Creativity During Hackathon - More investment in hacking events for the automobile space from Ford.

I love having Hacker Storytelling items to showcase:

• Women and Children First: A Data-Story on Survival Rates among the 2,207 Titanic Passengers and Crew Members - I like stories like this. 
• Choose Your Own Adventure Presentations: Wizard Mode Part 1 of 3 - A cool approach to presentations from Twilio. I used to love the books. 
• Telling your data’s story - The hacker storytelling coming out of O'reilly is so great lately.

Two Healthcare stories:

• EHR vendors extending platforms with apps and APIs - More EHR API discussion this last week. 
• Health 2.0 Boston Codeathon Recap - I'm thinking that hackathons are just going to grow in number, across all business sectors, but it is good to see so many healthcare ones.

A single, weird Home story:

• The secret lives of pets. | Nest - Not sure what I think of this, but an interesting view from the homefront of IoT.

One item to note in my IDE related research:

• How to Create Your Own Eclipse IDE Plug-in - Keeping track of as part of my API discovery via the IDE.

Two International items:

• Akamai Expands Business Operations in Canada - Pushing north. 
• Internationalizing & Localizing Your Modern JavaScript App - Some good guidance from PubNub.

Internet of Things is kind of tame this week:

• Amazon Dash Shows the Continued Value of APIs to Amazon - Good story from Mark O'Neill on the API connection to Dash. 
• Boxing Glove Sensors Track the Force of Every Blow - APis for your boxing gloves. 
• How does Amazon Dash prove the API economy? - Some thoughts on the new Amazon Dash, and world of IoT over at SmartBear. 
• Learning to Manage the Data from Wearables and Internet of Things Devices - Lots of talk about the data exhaust around IoT. 
• Amazon's Dash Button Brings IoT to Replenishment Services
• Audio Precision supports new loudspeaker test standard - I'm slowly letting in more hardware related stories, because of IoT. 
• IEEE to Drive Industry Discussion on Safeguarding of Information in a Digital World - An event I'm participating in this month in San Francisco. 
• Apigee Aims to Provide IoT's Missing Link - Apigee getting into the IoT game. 
• How the Roomba sparked a hacking revolution - When this machines take over, we can blame the Roomba! 
• Bits Blog: IBM Scores Weather Data Deal and Starts Internet of Things Unit - Cause everyone is doing IoT. 
• The 'Internet of Things' will create a lot of security vulnerabilities — here are ways companies can start tackling these issues - yes it will. yes it will.

JavaScript wisdom from the week:

• Part 3 - Introduction to JavaScript: Conditionals - I'm interested in how Amazon is apply JavaScript to inject scripting into apps, especially gaming. 
• React and Polymer arising among JavaScript MV* frameworks - Just keeping an eye on who is in the lead. 
• PubNub Demo Showcase: Second Screen Gaming with a Smartphone Controller on Vimeo - Just pretty cool.

Yes! Libraries:

• Linked Data in Libraries: A Case Study of Harvesting and Sharing Bibliographic Metadata with BIBFRAME - Tracking on for the linked data and library connections. 
• Boopsie Launches AccessILS Platform to Streamline Integration of Digital and Physical Resources for Libraries - I came across these guys doing Swagger research, and then I stumbled across this in my monitoring. 
• The Internet Archive & the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections - http://dp.la/info/2015/03/30/sharing-data-for-better-discovery-and-access/ - Couldn't think of a better partnership.

IBM continuing to dominate Machine Learning:

• IBM Watson QA + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis = A Conversation With Your Computer - Pretty cool speech recognition walk through from IBM.

A single Mapping item out of Google:

• Open Google Maps from your iOS app - Just a little mapping tidbit.

Media related items in the news:

• Amazon Elastic Transcoder Update – PlayReady DRM Support for Smooth Streaming and HLS - More media movement from AWS. 
• How Auntie is opening its vaults for the download generation - A good story for the archives. Would like to flush it out as a case study add to the archives.

Messaging talk:

• BitTorrent’s encrypted chat app Bleep gets photos - Encrypted messaging is definitely going to be an ongoing discussion. 
• Introducing Lookup: Fight Fraud, Improve Deliverability, and Use Local-Friendly Number Formats - More security related resources for helping apps defend themselves.

A single Microservices tale:

• Microservices: An Annotated Socratic Diablog - A great story for the enterprise!

A handful of Mobile to aggregate:

• Appcelerator Adds MBaaS Platform to Portfolio - The mobile context has always been part of appcelerator, but the API deployment infrastructure is interesting enough to take a closer look at. 
• Google releases a tool for developers to launch Android apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS - Google getting deeper into the mobile backend as a service game. 
• Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher - Buying up the bits and pieces you need for your mobile strategy. 
• Google Cloud Platform launches mobile console for Android - Gotta have a mobile console for your cloud environment. 
• Open Google Maps from your iOS app - Just a little mapping tidbit.

A single Museums story:

• Indianapolis Museum of Art Launches New Online Collection - Regular stream of museum, art related API stories lately. I like it.

Some thoughts from the world of Music:

• Streaming Services use of Metadata - How Decibel approaches their streaming services.

Love the Outdoors news:

• OpenTrails Achieves Escape Velocity! - Evolving the OpenTrails format. Keep an eye on OpenTrails, and the larger national parks related APi stuff happening in government.

A single Partner story to note:

• SmartBear Partners with Gallop Solutions - Partnerships and consolidation of services in the API testing world.

Payments not as hot this last week:

• Google must fight a lawsuit claiming Google Wallet breached user privacy - Just tracking on as part of larger privacy conversations. 
• Mobile Banking and Payments are on the Up and Up - Things are heating up each month in this space. Lots of changes ahead.

A robust Politics of APIs tag this last week:

• Why Your Favorite Snapchat Apps No Longer Work - Snapchat is really not thinking about the big picture. 
• Despite Reports, Facebook Says Hashtag API Still Active - A take on the recent conversation around the Facebook Hashtag API. 
• Facebook may be shutting down access to hashtags in its API - The conversation on the Facebook Hashtag API from another angle. 
• Snapchat cuts off third-party apps, releases its first transparency report - Another look at the SnapChat stance. 
• Snapchat’s drastic security measures shut down entire ‘Internet neighborhoods’ on the service - Just cataloging, and sharing all the perspectives. 
• WhatsApp Will Not Release Public API - Some more talk about last weeks statement from WhatsApp.

Some helpful, and some frustrating Privacy discussions:

• “Do Not Track” won’t stop tech companies from tracking you, so who cares that Microsoft disabled it? - No. Let's encourage more to pay attention please. 
• Facebook suggests more privacy tips for keeping user accounts secure - Ok, I can't bitch a Facebook for educating users. 
• Future Trends in Privacy Activism That Could Affect Big Data - More privacy insight from DataSift. 
• Google must fight a lawsuit claiming Google Wallet breached user privacy - Just tracking on as part of larger privacy conversations. 
• Snapchat finally atones for its spotty privacy record, taking steps to be more secure and transparent - A strange take on SnapChat from Pando Daily. 
• Privacy Is Becoming a Premium Service - A scary look at potential monetization opportunities in the future. 
• Ancestry.com Reconstructs Genomes Of 19th-Century Couples Using Customers' DNA - Ummmm, WTF? 
• People First, Privacy First at F8 and Beyond: Facebook and DataSift’s Shared Privacy Focus - I trust DataSift way more than I trust Facebook really. But interesting insight nonetheless.

Good to see more API discussion in the world of Real Estate and Mortages:

• Open developer APIs essentially do not exist in the mortgage industry — that is a problem - A call for APIs from the mortgage and real estate industry.

The Real-Time discussion always dominated by PubNub with their kick ass content:

• The Comprehensive PubNub Publish/Subscribe JavaScript API Tutorial - A great tutorial on Publish/Subscribe from PubNub. 
• API Streaming: Cache And Push Data From APIs Using StreamData.io · - A new real-time platform I found this last week. 
• A real-time processing revival - An interesting real-time roundup over at O'Reilly. 
• PubNub Demo Showcase: Second Screen Gaming with a Smartphone Controller on Vimeo - Just pretty cool. 
• Realtime API design guide - A guide from one of the leaders in real-time. 
• Stream Location Coordinates Data Broadcast with JavaScript - Another interesting tutorial from PubNub.

Security discussions I am watching:

• Why Your Favorite Snapchat Apps No Longer Work - Snapchat is really not thinking about the big picture. 
• TrueCrypt Security Audit Completed - interesting audit. 
• Verisign Openhybrid™ Cloud Signaling API Specification - An interesting security API to track on. 
• Snapchat’s drastic security measures shut down entire ‘Internet neighborhoods’ on the service - Just cataloging, and sharing all the perspectives. 
• Critical Vulnerabilities Affecting JSON Web Token Libraries - Keeping track of. 
• IEEE to Drive Industry Discussion on Safeguarding of Information in a Digital World - An event I'm participating in this month in San Francisco. 
• Critical vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries - More on the JSOn web token vulnerability, from the source. 
• Introducing Lookup: Fight Fraud, Improve Deliverability, and Use Local-Friendly Number Formats - More security related resources for helping apps defend themselves. 
• The 'Internet of Things' will create a lot of security vulnerabilities — here are ways companies can start tackling these issues - yes it will. yes it will.

A cool Showcase out of the Noun Project ecosystem:

• The Noun Project + Lumi - A cool integration over at the Noun Project.

Some Shuttering of companies in the cloud space to note by itself:

• OpenStack hardware startup Nebula shuts down - Keeping track of some of the losers in the cloud computing game.

The every fascinating Single Page Applications how-tos:

• Building Single Page Apps with React & Reflux for Salesforce - Nice SPA guide over at SalesForce 
• Role-based SPAs with AngularJS and Spring HATEOAS | Paul Warren - Another interesting SPA story, but with a unique role-based focus. Is this SPA personalization?

Adding a single Software Defined Networking item, cause it has good content:

• 37 software-defined storage terms you need to know, Part 1 - Going to add to my new API definitions glossary microservices (mouthful)

I love anything out of NASA that is Space related:

• SkyWatch: An API for the Universe - open.NASA - Ok, space APIs are cool.

Isolating this again as a Speech related items, because it goes beyond just machine learning:

• IBM Watson QA + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis = A Conversation With Your Computer - Pretty cool speech recognition walk through from IBM.

Big, big week for Spreadsheets:

• Blockspring Shifts The API Client Conversation With Their Google Spreadsheet API Add-On · - These guys win the roundup in my opinion, as one of the most important things that happened this last week. 
• Blockspring for Google Sheets – Blockspring - Their take on the release.

And a single State Government item to cover each level of government this week:

• New York State's New Open Data API Increases Government Transparency - State level transparency in any agency is good!

Busted out Telecommunications, to show how stunted the industry can be:

• Charter Communications : Spectrum Business Adds Fiber Optic Maps and Data... - A fiber optic API I stumbled across. Mostly keeping because I'm doing a story on the onboarding process. 
• AT&T charges more for fiber internet if Google's not in your town - Would expect nothing less.

Not as much Transparency talk this last week, but a handful to showcase by themselves:

• Snapchat cuts off third-party apps, releases its first transparency report - Another look at the SnapChat stance. 
• Snapchat’s first transparency report shows 403 data requests since November 2014 - A peek into t

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